Christian_Szegedy comments on MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience - Less Wrong
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In this sense I don't believe in QS. BTW, I don't think you can believe in the correctness of utility functions. You can believe in the correctness of theories and then you decide your utility function. It may be even inconsistent (and you can be money pumped), still that's your choice, based on the evidences.
It makes sense to first split the following three components:
It seems that you try to mix these different aspects.
If you notice the necessity to revise your calculations or physical world view, then it may force you to update your moral preferences, objective functions as well. But you should never let your moral preferences determine the outcome of your mathematical calculation or confidence in physical theories.
That is not the correct interpretation of my statement. The broad foundations of a utility function can give people a motivation for calculating certain probabilities and may influence the language that is used.
No, and I expressed explicitly an objection to doing so, to the point where for me to do so further would be harping on about it. I am willing to engage with those who evaluate probabilities from the position of assuming they will be a person who will be experiencing life. The language is usually ambiguous and clarified by the declared assumptions.
I doubt discussing this further will give either of us any remarkable insights. Mostly because the concepts are trivial (given the appropriate background).